Laure Quinlivan (left, seen here with Christopher Smitherman during a Feb. 1 meeting, led the fight to double the term length for Cincinnati City Council members.

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Voters have doubled the term length for Cincinnati City Council members from two to four years - unless provisional ballots come back strong against the measure.

Tuesday night's election results showed Issue 4 passing by just 2,183 votes, a less than 2 percentage point difference. In all, 61,191 people voted for and 59,008 voted against the measure.

An automatic recount would occur if the difference is less than half of 1 percent of the total votes cast on the measure. Right now it would not qualify for a recount, but Tim Burke, co-chairman of the Hamilton County Board of Elections, said ...